Stefan Baumgartner

List of articles

I enjoy being at conferences, however I can’t be on all of them. Which is sad,
because judging from all the videos one misses a lot! Turns out, my most
favorite talks were all from conferences I haven’t been to. The organizers
however are kind enough to provide amazing videos for us:

This one is a shorty, but that’s what it makes it so nice. Imagine that you
have only one dependency in your project, which is some third party library
your code builds upon, like jQuery. Instead of having the complete dependency
management stack on your shoulders, you just want to use that single file.

Another article I wrote for the blog over at my employer. When we switched
our login from a purely JavaScript based to a progressively enhanced one,
we ended up in some deployment mistakes. This was how our tool recognized
those errors and what it meant for us. Read it over
at Ruxit

Node.js 4.0.0 just got released! The jump from 0.12.x
to 4.0 is a huge one, especially since it incorporates lots of changes that happened
over at the IO.js project. So far, I haven’t experienced a lot of issues with it, and it
quickly became the one version that I use as default on my system. However, there are some
hickups here and there. Here I try to collect some issues with Gulp.js and first aid
solutions. There are few and they might be out of date quickly.

One really cool feature on the Gulp 4 roadmap is the inclusion of native
sourcemaps. A commit roughly two weeks ago at the vinyl-fs
package makes this possible now. Instead of using the gulp-sourcemaps
package directly, you can use a flag in gulp.src. Gulp takes care of the rest:

Okay, lovely people, this is huge for me. I’m actually in the midst of writing a
book. It’s called “Front-End Tooling with Gulp, Bower and Yeoman”, and it’s
– you guessed it – about front-end tooling with Gulp, Bower and Yeoman. Actually
I’ve been writing on it for the last 9 months, and now it has reached the phase of
going public for the first time. It’s in the so called “Early Access Program” from
Manning (MEAP), where you can buy it before it goes to print, helping me pointing at
all the mistakes I make. Or do some slap on the back because it’s so good.